Inter-regional passenger trips exceeded 229 million in China on Saturday, Day 1 of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, up 10.2 percent year on year, according to official data and statistics.
China's railway networks handled 18.116 million passenger trips, and civil aviation system handled 1.911 million passenger trips. The country's expressway and highway networks were estimated to see more than 209 million passenger trips on Saturday, while the cross-regional passenger trips by water were expected to reach one million.
China's expressway networks are expected to handle over 40 million vehicles on Sunday, with new energy vehicles accounting for around 20.5 percent, an obvious increase compared with the same period in 2024.
Holiday passenger trips exceed 220 million on Day 1
Holiday passenger trips exceed 220 million on Day 1
Holiday passenger trips exceed 220 million on Day 1
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
